Philipp Schwalb at Kirchgasse
Soloshow «O Ich T», February 9 until March 30, 2019
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Exhibition View Philipp Schwalb Soloshow «O Ich T» at Kirchgasse, Steckborn / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse
Exhibition View Philipp Schwalb Soloshow «O Ich T ; view on Wär I (Bild) ähm? @ da riva! Expänsiv$, 2018» at Kirchgasse, Steckborn / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse
Exhibition View Philipp Schwalb Soloshow «O Ich T ; view on O ich T, 2019» at Kirchgasse, Steckborn / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse
Exhibition View Philipp Schwalb Soloshow «O Ich T ; view on Das Chaletzelt der verschiedenen Leben oder Wie die drei Philosophen Ihren Sinn in der Wüste suchen, 2019» at Kirchgasse, Steckborn / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse
Exhibition View Philipp Schwalb Soloshow «O Ich T» at Kirchgasse, Steckborn / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse
Exhibition View Philipp Schwalb Soloshow «O Ich T» at Kirchgasse, Steckborn / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse
In his second solo exhibition at Kirchgasse, Philipp Schwalb presents a series of new landscapes and figure paintings. Each of these works consists of a landscape with specific characteristics (North or South Pole, desert, primeval forest), a group of naked figures, and the respective activities they perform. In their nudity, the characters seem exposed, isolated, and self-centered. Place, figure, and activity remain schematically separate sub-components, which Philipp Schwalb unites in each work in a new distinctive pictorial entity. Each painting depicts a different constellation of the pictorial elements as a possible connotational context. Thus, these images can be regarded as both a new chapter in the evolutionary development of Schwalb’s figurative work, as well as pictorial artifacts of an artistic self-questioning. In the presentation of activity and engagement, of reception, communication, and interaction, Schwalb’s own self-image as an artist is reflected, an image that is constantly reconfigured depending on the context (landscape, climate). In keeping with this idea of a kaleidoscopic self, the first "Steckborn Convention" will be held parallel to the exhibition’s opening and will include contributions by Ann-Kathrin Eickhoff, Anne Gruber, Séverine Heizmann, Yannic Joray, Robert Müller, and Mathias Renner.
Exhibition View Philipp Schwalb Soloshow «O Ich T» at Kirchgasse, Steckborn / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse
Exhibition View Philipp Schwalb Soloshow «O Ich T» at Kirchgasse, Steckborn / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse
Exhibition View Philipp Schwalb Soloshow «O Ich T» at Kirchgasse, Steckborn / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse
Exhibition View Philipp Schwalb Soloshow «O Ich T ; view on Endlich die MondPapaya oder Wie lange das Sammeln im Urwald noch dauert, 2019» at Kirchgasse, Steckborn / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse
Exhibition View Philipp Schwalb Soloshow «O Ich T» at Kirchgasse, Steckborn / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse
Exhibition View Philipp Schwalb Soloshow «O Ich T / view on Alles voll wEisglanz oder Wie die Entdeckung neuer Energiequellen im Farbigen Grund der Pole lag, 2019» at Kirchgasse, Steckborn / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse
Exhibition View Philipp Schwalb Soloshow «O Ich T» at Kirchgasse, Steckborn / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse
Exhibition View Philipp Schwalb Soloshow «O Ich T» at Kirchgasse, Steckborn / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse
